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Introductory Work
To begin, students are introduced to the discipline through a series of courses dealing with the normal processes of speech, language, and hearing. These courses deal with physical, neurophysiological, cognitive, and linguistic bases of normal speaking, hearing, and language use, with the acoustics of sound and of speech, with the development of language in children, and how communication is affected throughout the lifespan.
Course Descriptions - Communication Sciences (UVM Online Catalogue)
Advanced Work - Coursework and Research
Advanced CMSIi undergraduate students participate in research both in and out of the classroom. During the senior year, students participate in a seminar introducing principles of research as applied to the study of human communication and its disorders. In this seminar, undergraduates participate in a research project, which in past years has resulted in student papers selected for presentation at scholarly organizations beyond the University. Outside the classroom, students are encouraged to pursue research through collaboration in ongoing faculty research or by the pursuit of their own particular research interests with the help of a faculty mentor. Ongoing areas of faculty research span normal and disordered communication throughout the lifespan and include following topics:
CMSI Undergraduate Awarded McNair Scholarship -- Erin Maskell-Ferland, of Franklin, Vermont, a junior in CMSI, presented her research on August 9, 2007..more on this story...
Clinical Experience
Students are also exposed to guided observations in the E.M. Luse Center for Communication: Speech, Language and Hearing (the Clinic is housed within the CMSI Department).
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